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1 POLICY MEMO SUMMARY WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH EASTERN UKRAINE? Kadri Liik and Andrew Wilson The situation in eastern Ukraine is only a temporary stalemate. Russia has managed to bring some of Donbas outside Kyiv s control, but not to use it to control Kyiv. Ukraine is in no position to recover its territory using military means and must hope for a diplomatic solution of the sort that preserves its sovereignty and freedom to choose its future. The EU should try to help Ukraine to achieve such an outcome by converting its sanctions policy into a tool for diplomacy. The EU s chief goal should be the return of Donbas to Ukraine by implementation of the Minsk agreements. At the same time, the EU should engage in contingency planning for a chief goal would be to help Ukraine make sure spill over to the rest of the country in ways that would jeopardise Ukraine s overall prospects. Ultimately, the fate of eastern Ukraine will be decided by factors outside of Donbas: the capability of Ukraine s new government to reform and establish a rule-based system of governance, and the ability of the Western world to change Russia s calculations, including through dialogue. But it would be a mistake to leave eastern Ukraine to its own devices while these bigger issues sort themselves out, as facts on the ground may later be hard to reverse; and turbulence in the east would hold back the crucial political reforms in Kyiv. The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is teetering on the brink. It could still become a first step towards a settlement, but, as recent escalation has shown, the ceasefire could also collapse. Despite the timeout from full-scale war the two sides still have mutually exclusive aims. Ukraine wants to restore its territorial integrity, but it lacks both the means and adequate external support to do so. Russia s aims are multi-layered: Moscow wants to remake the post-cold War European order, and it wants to determine Ukraine s fate. The post-cold War order has been shattered, but Ukraine s fate is not yet sealed. Russia has managed to remove parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from Kyiv s control, but not to use them to control Kyiv. Thus, the fight for Ukraine conducted largely, although not exclusively via its east is still ahead. This memo examines possible future scenarios for the region and makes recommendations for what the European Union should do and how it should aim to do it. The current situation: constraints on both sides The September ceasefire happened because both sides needed a truce. Ukrainian troops made headway against east Ukrainian rebels and Russia s irregular fighters throughout the summer. But in late August and early September Russian regular troops joined an assault designed to show Kyiv that Russia could support and supply the region at will. Moscow wanted Kyiv to see that Western support would not be forthcoming, that military victory was not possible,

2 WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH EASTERN UKRAINE? and that Ukraine needed to accept Russia s terms for peace. Ukraine lost hundreds of men, was forced to retreat, and sued for a truce. It seems certain that Ukraine will not resume its offensive. of the rebel-held territory. If Russia were to initiate a major escalation, it could lead to a new large-scale war, but otherwise, Ukraine will likely concentrate on finding a diplomatic solution. Ukraine s President Petro Poroshenko is operating under tight constraints. The country s economy is in dire straits and Ukraine can ill afford large-scale regular or economic warfare with Russia. At the same time, more and more Ukrainians believe their country must join the West. By the summer, over 50 percent of Ukrainians were in favour of EU membership, roughly twice the number supporting joining Russia s Customs Union. 1 And the number of Ukrainians who support NATO membership is now greater than the number of those who do not. 2 Moreover, Poroshenko s ability to sell an unpleasant deal to Ukrainian society is limited. Politically, he has an impressive mandate as president, but he does not have full control of the Rada, and after the Maidan protests, the Ukrainian people are keeping a critical eye on the politicians who represent them. A new round of protests - though not an imperfect new democracy is not the same as a last-ditch protest against the threat of autocracy -could be launched if the authorities do not implement reform quickly or adequately enough for those who supported the protests the first time round. And any new round of protests would be joined by radicalised veterans from the fighting in the east. Moscow too faces meaningful constraints. For now, Russians largely support the annexation of Crimea and the population believes the government s manipulated interpretation of events in eastern Ukraine. But support for open war in the east has declined, from over 70 percent in April to just over 30 percent now. 3 The peak in deaths in August-September must have alarmed the Kremlin: in spite of media censorship, the public found out about the rising death toll, the coffins arriving in Russia from Ukraine, and the secret funerals of soldiers killed in action. A combination of military casualties and an economic downturn could spell future problems for the regime. could only be achieved through open warfare; Russia would deniability of its involvement in such a broadening of the conflict. 4 Finally, Russia s military establishment is reluctant to lead large-scale warfare that could expose deficiencies that recent army reforms have only partially addressed. 5 However, Moscow s ability to defuse tensions is also restricted. The east Ukrainian rebels could not survive without Moscow s support, but many of them are still semiindependent figures. In Russia itself, a strong nationalist criticises the Kremlin for not grabbing more territory sooner. The Kremlin is far from being entirely hostage to their views, but the perception in Moscow is that defeat in Donbas would cause serious damage to President Vladimir Putin s reputation. Moscow wants to prevent Ukraine from moving to the West, but it is unsure how best to achieve it. It is torn between the contradictory options of trying to make Ukraine into a failed state, and pursuing a deal with President Poroshenko, 6 future. President Poroshenko s request to postpone the implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU is likely aimed at avoiding open economic warfare with Russia. By involving Russia in trilateral negotiations, Ukraine might hope to pacify Russia for now, so that it could reach an acceptable settlement in the future, when Ukraine is stronger and Russia has felt the full effects of sanctions. Moscow may expect Ukrainian society s support for the European path to wane as economic hardships increase and EU and NATO membership seems further away. While it waits, Moscow can try to gain ground and capitalise on Kyiv s expected missteps. The eventual fate of eastern Ukraine will depend on many issues, the most important of which are beyond the scope of this paper: the capability of Ukraine s new government to reform and establish a rule-based system of governance; and the ability of the Western world to change Russia s calculations. ECFR/119 December Sanctions are hitting Russia and Moscow probably realises that significant escalation of its involvement say, by creating a land connection to Crimea could result in further sanctions. Furthermore, any putative land-bridge to Crimea , available at eu_dk. 2 ratinggroup.com.ua/ru/products/politic/data/entry/14098/. 3 Conversation with Lev Gudkov, director of the Levada Centre, on 10 November Moscow has repeatedly signalled its desire to reach a settlement with the West, but so far on its own terms, which include a review of the post-cold-war European 4 The Interpreter available at 5 Claims based on the authors conversations in Moscow, 6-11 November , available at russia_wants.

3 7 and most likely a few more conditions, such as serious revision or cancellation of Ukraine s DCFTA with Europe and a new constitution that suits Moscow. 8 Such conditions are acceptable neither to Kyiv nor Europe. However, the bite of sanctions and low oil prices, combined with a fragile but unexpectedly united Western stand, may at some point open up opportunities for talks that are not solely on Moscow s terms. Moscow may become more receptive to settling for a face-saving solution. The challenge for the West is to convert Russia s pain from sanctions into a diplomatic tool that could then be used to help Ukraine. This paper looks into the future scenarios for eastern Ukraine, tries to determine which outcomes are in principle conducive to Ukraine s future as a sovereign democratic country, and give Europe some guidance as to how it could use its diplomatic leverage on the ground to help to achieve such outcomes. Outcome 1: Return of the east a Ukrainian win The best outcome for Ukraine, and for the West, would be for Ukraine to recover de jure and de facto authority over the east. Ukraine is now unlikely to even try to achieve this outcome by military means. A sudden diplomatic breakthrough leading to this solution is also unlikely, given the extent to which rebel self-rule has consolidated, and given Moscow s unwillingness to accept any solution that could be interpreted as a retreat or defeat. The best hope for this outcome lies in the implementation of the Minsk agreements, which sketch out such a scenario of gradual return and could still offer Moscow a face-saving way out. Under that scenario, the rebel-controlled portions of Donetsk and Luhansk would again be undisputed parts of Ukraine. There would be a transition period, but they would receive no significant special (veto) rights that they could use as leverage over the rest of the country. Annexed Crimea would remain an unresolved issue, but it would not damage Ukraine s political and economic development or Kyiv s foreign policy aspirations. The border between Russia and Ukraine is mainly porous and effectively non-existent east of the rebel republics at the moment. The current border-monitoring mission led by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe is only symbolic. The mission may even do more harm than good, since the OSCE presence lends legitimacy to an unacceptable situation, and implies a degree of control greater than the OSCE actually possesses. The EU could demand that the mission is dramatically strengthened, so that it could monitor the whole border, even minus the sections east of Donbas, as opposed to just a few crossings. 11 Or, more ambitiously, it could seek a mandate for an EU-led border-monitoring mission. For such a scenario to work in the long run, Ukraine would need a government that has a strategic vision for the country s future and can pursue it without destructive infighting. It would need to implement rule-based governance. This was the main demand of the Maidan and remains that of many Ukrainian voters. If these general conditions were met, Ukraine could probably count on the West s continued economic support. But it would still need to carry out major economic reforms to pull the country out of recession, make its economic model sustainable, and reduce its vulnerability to Russian pressure. Crucially, it would also need to find a delicate way of helping and reintegrating the Donbas population that is traumatised by the war, and has lost much sympathy for Kyiv. However, if Ukraine manages to mount a credible statebuilding effort and the EU continues to support it, the Minsk Agreement could also become the least bad option for Moscow. Moscow does not want Donbas for its own sake it wants it as leverage over Kyiv. If other options, unfeasible or fail to achieve the desired results, the return of the eastern regions into the (political) life of Ukraine might seem the best way forward. The Minsk agreements were partly Moscow s initiative, so Moscow could present its de facto retreat as a victory. If Western sanctions and falling oil prices undermine Russia s economy and thus the regime s popularity, a face-saving way out might become an attractive option. Adherence to the Minsk agreements has been the EU s chief demand since September; and more recently Germany seems to be making a renewed effort to achieve their implementation by Moscow. 9 The agreements foresee, among other things, the removal of military hardware from the separatist regions and the monitoring of the Russia- Ukraine border. 10 These demands need to be pursued more vigorously and pro-actively. The EU should prolong or even escalate sanctions if Russia does not comply. It should also keep the issue of Crimea on the agenda and make it clear to Russia that its territorial conquest there is not accepted. 7 8 See the list of proposals presented by the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 17, Outcome 2: An insulated frozen conflict The above solution remains the most desirable outcome for Ukraine and the West, but it might not be the only one that 9 ukraine/steinmeier-sees-compliance-with-minsk-agreements-as-way-out-of-crisis-inukraines-east html 10 sovmestnykh shagov, napravlennykh na implementatsiyu Mirnovo plana Prezidenta 2014, available at 11 Such demands have in fact been made, but with little results so far. See a decision by OSCE s permanent council from pc/125995?download=true 3

4 ECFR/119 December WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH EASTERN UKRAINE? 4 a bad name, but an insulated conflict with only a limited impact on the rest of the country might not be the worst outcome for Ukraine. freezing the conflict in its current state, with no agreed roadmap for the return of the territories. They might define the borders of the rebel regions either through talks (and there are rumours of behind the scenes exchanges on this) or through force (which would explain Moscow s recent escalation). By fortifying the border between the enclaves and the rest of the country, Ukraine may have already started moving in this direction. Neither Russia nor Ukraine want this option, but both might to restore its sovereignty over the area, once better times prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and the EU. It might also envisage using the conflict region as a bridgehead from which to stir up trouble in the rest of the country. If this becomes the likely outcome, Europe should keep pressuring Russia to withdraw from the region and should make holding on to the region costly. However, it should also ensure that the contact line between Ukraine and the rebel entities stays free from tensions. Creating barriers that could prevent conflict escalation would leave the bulk of Ukraine secure enough to pursue independent policies and reforms. Europe could help Ukraine to mount a solid much of the Ukraine-Russia border as possible. Considering the length of the border, this would be a huge task, but an achievable one. Similar EU or OSCE-led border monitoring mechanisms have played a very important role on the Russia-Georgia and the internal Georgia-South Ossetia borders, as well as on Ukraine s border with Moldova s breakaway Transnistria region. In such a scenario, even while it holds political control, Russia would likely try to shift the region s living costs onto Ukraine. Therefore, some commentators and some Ukrainians have suggested a more radical solution: abandoning Donbas altogether. This would free Kyiv up to focus on reforms and spare it a real economic and political burden. 12 It could cut the region loose economically or it could grant it independence. Independence for Donbas is probably unrealistic: not to mention the moral aspect, many forces in Ukraine would be against it, and so would the West, since it is not interested in new border changes in Europe. But it is an option that Moscow neither expects nor wants. Russia wants leverage over Ukraine, not burdensome new obligations. Being left with Donbas instead would feel like a bitter disappointment: 12, motyl/ukraine-should-abandon-donbas-enclave.4. having tried to catch a man, Moscow would be left with just his jacket. Moscow is itself obsessed with territory, so it would not expect this move, and it would certainly try to prevent it. Keeping the independence option up its sleeve might serve to pressure Moscow to comply with the Minsk agreements and to try to ensure the regions return. Outcome 3: Further Russian conquest However, if Russia is not interested in the de jure severing of Donbas from Ukraine, it is likely be interested in making the region economically more viable; and this may involve further conquests. The August counter-offensive clearly had economic as well as military objectives, and was designed to increase the viability of any new separatist entity. It has not done so yet. The pre-war population in the areas currently controlled was 3.8 million (now probably nearer 3 million) too big to be easily subsidised (Transnistria has under 0.5 million), but too small to be viable on its own, at least under the present conditions of a broken economy and trade links. A broader swathe of the border is now open, airports and railways were targeted; Ilovaisk was attacked because it is a major railway junction back east towards Rostov. Donetsk airport is still in Ukrainian hands, but has been the object of constant battles, despite the cease-fire. But the traditional economic key to the region is Mariupol. Its railways and port bring in the supplies and imports that the processing industry in Donetsk and Luhansk relies on, especially chemicals and metallic ores, and then export the end products. Crimea is also facing huge problems with transport links as well as water and electricity supplies. Any operation around Mariupol could tempt Moscow to go further and open a land corridor to Crimea and secure its transport, water and energy supplies. 13 Or Russia could whole of the east and south of Ukraine. Previous attempts to foster uprisings in places like Odessa and Kharkiv failed through lack of popular support. Russia would have to rely much more on its regular army, leaving Moscow with thin military cover on a newly-exposed flank as well as the thinnest of cover stories. Such an offensive would be hard to square with Russia s assumed strategic calculations as described above. But calculations can change. If Russia loses hope of gaining control over Kyiv s policies, then it can return to the plans of carving out a more sizeable Novorossiya. To prevent this scenario Europe should use whatever deterrence power it has, which at this point is largely sanctions and the threat of more sanctions, to keep Russia from taking over more territory. Russia is less likely to risk further conquest if it believes the EU will remain 13, 16 September 2014, available at blog=15&lang_id=13&id_post=352#.

5 united and be able to muster a response. At the same time Europe should offer an option for dialogue: Russia needs a disincentive from burning bridges with the West. Outcome 4: Russia gains control The most negative outcome for Ukraine could take several shapes, and can happen whether or not Russia takes over more territory. Any outcome that gives Moscow leverage over Ukraine s future decision-making would be bad for Ukraine. It would endanger the relationship between Ukraine and the EU, not to mention NATO. More importantly, it would hold back much-needed domestic political and economic reforms. It would stall the important work of undoing the previous regime s murky legacy which would not be a smooth process even under the best of circumstances. which the eastern regions returned to Ukraine, but stayed under Moscow s de facto control. Some in Moscow have Viktor Yanukovych s regime. To Russia, it has always meant a highly decentralised or dysfunctional confederation a second Bosnia rather than a benign Bundesrepublik. Real decentralisation of democratic power is an entirely different option that Kyiv is foolish not to seriously consider. method to bring Ukraine s eastern regions into the Eurasian Union, leaving the rest of the country to its own devices. 14 Others see it as a means of gaining control over Kyiv. Moscow s interests would be well served by a settlement that gave the eastern regions veto rights over Kyiv s policies. Its treatment of the 2 November separatist elections, which entities bargaining power with Kyiv, while not quite yet supporting their claims to independence. Moscow seems to be trying to return to its accustomed means of controlling Ukraine: through the elites. Up until the fall of President Yanukovych, Moscow tried to control Kyiv by putting pressure on the leaders of the country, using economic leverage and covert subsidies. Moscow might hope to achieve a similar, albeit modified, relationship with various circles, including the Opposition Block, the remnants of the Yanukovych Family and even President Poroshenko, as indicated when he was recently hailed as a pragmatist by some in Moscow. The president s postponement of DCFTA implementation, among other steps, could be interpreted as a hopeful sign for Moscow. Moreover, Russia has successfully the Opposition Block, which will have just over 10 percent of the seats in the Rada. Ukraine is still too big, too independent-minded, and too anarchic to become a proper satellite to Moscow as Moscow s ill-fated courtship of the Yanukovych regime proved. But having real leverage over Ukraine s decisionmaking would hugely increase Moscow s capacity to disrupt and destabilise. In the longer term, a Russian win could see Ukraine become ungovernable, or even a failed state. Any scenario that stymies Kyiv, also ties the EU s hands. The EU can only help Ukraine when Ukraine helps itself. Otherwise, it can do nothing as testified by the EU s attempted courtship of the Yanukovych regime. Therefore, the policy recommendation when it comes to outcome three is short: make sure it does not happen. Conclusion The future of eastern Ukraine will ultimately be defined by processes that take place outside the region s borders. Though Kyiv s ability to reform and provide rule-based governance remains crucial. For Moscow, its policy in Ukraine is inextricably linked to its views on the European order and the chance to agree with the West about revising it a conversation that has not yet properly started. Even so, the turbulence in the East will have a profoundly negative effect on Kyiv s ability to focus on reforms. Also, the developments in the region and the related diplomatic contacts remain important, as these can create dynamics and facts on the ground that may take on a life of their own and be hard to revise later. Therefore, the EU must use all its diplomatic skills and other leverage to influence the outcome. In doing so it must honour the sovereignty of Kyiv, but also the principles of the post-cold War European order. This means that the return of Donbas to Ukraine as envisaged by the Minsk agreements (outcome 1) must remain the EU s primary demand, but while pursuing that, and working on making it insulated (outcome 2) as an uninsulated conflict, even if frozen, is likely to lead to the chaos of a Russian-controlled Ukraine (outcome 4). The current stalemate is more than tenuous; the EU will need to stay united and engaged, and potentially willing to commit significant border missions, not to mention diplomatic energy, if Kyiv is to have any chance of resolving the chaos in eastern Ukraine. 14, 6 February 2014, available at us-ukraine-russia-glazyev-idusbrea150x

6 WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH EASTERN UKRAINE? About the authors is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining ECFR in October 2012, Kadri was the director of the International Centre for Defence Studies in Estonia. Her publications for ECFR include (2014) and (2013). is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a reader in Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London. His most recent book is (Yale Books, 2014). His publications for ECFR include P (2014) and (2014). Acknowledgements The authors have benefited from the insights of our contacts at the European Commission and the European External Action Service, as well as from brainstorms in several EU capitals. We would also like to thank our ECFR colleagues, valuable advice and feedback; also Rachel Tausendfreund ECFR/119 December

7 ABOUT ECFR The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is the first pan-european think-tank. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent, effective and values-based European foreign policy. ECFR has developed a strategy with three distinctive elements that define its activities: A pan-european Council. ECFR has brought together a distinguished Council of over two hundred Members politicians, decision makers, thinkers and business people from the EU s member states and candidate countries which meets once a year as a full body. Through geographical and thematic task forces, members provide ECFR staff with advice and feedback on policy ideas and help with ECFR s activities within their own countries. The Council is chaired by Martti Ahtisaari and Mabel van Oranje. A physical presence in the main EU member states. ECFR, uniquely among European think-tanks, has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sofia and Warsaw. Our offices are platforms for research, debate, advocacy and communications. A distinctive research and policy development process. ECFR has brought together a team of distinguished researchers and practitioners from all over Europe to advance its objectives through innovative projects with a pan-european focus. ECFR s activities include primary research, publication of policy reports, private meetings and public debates, friends of ECFR gatherings in EU capitals and outreach to strategic media outlets. ECFR is a registered charity funded by the Open Society Foundations and other generous foundations, individuals and corporate entities. These donors allow us to publish our ideas and advocate for a values-based EU foreign policy. ECFR works in partnership with other think tanks and organisations but does not make grants to individuals or institutions. The European Council on Foreign Relations does not take collective positions. This paper, like all publications of the European Council on Foreign Relations, represents only the views of its authors. Copyright of this publication is held by the European Council on Foreign Relations. You may not copy, reproduce, republish or circulate in any way the content from this publication except for your own personal and non-commercial use. Any other use requires the prior written permission of the European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR December ISBN: Published by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), 35 Old Queen Street, London, 7

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